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Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Thu Oct 23 00:29:35 2014

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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 23:29:22 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 10/22/2014 23:02, Jim Mercer wrote:

> if reducing boot time from 20 minutes down to 1 minute, in a server environment,
> is a serious issue for you, maybe you should be looking at why you need to
> reboot so often?


That is the question I have been asking myself.

Back in the day we took it a a failure if a reboot happened.  (I 
remember discussions about needing to reboot to keep counters from 
overflowing.  I thought programming for counter wrap was a better idea.)

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The fact that they are infallible; and,

The fact that they learn from their mistakes.


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